Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other words, the "dear public" does not want to pay to see a drama depicting life as analyzed by a philosophical playwright whose uniqueness has made his name and memory immortal. We study his plays in college, but seldom see them produced because "the public does not want that sort of thing." It would be interesting to make this experiment; obtain the best of Shakspearean actors for the production of the immortal's plays with the money sunk into the elaborate Broadway revue as a working capital for scenery costumes and modern theatrical appliances, and tour the country as frequently...
...city, seeing how matters fared with the people. Or how, on the morrow, from his high throne he meted out reward and punishment to those whom he had found meritorious or wanting on the night before. Thus was justice given, alike to Cadi and fisherman, in a manner dear to the oriental heart...
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...obvious that the curriculum is but a part very likely the most important part, but not the whole of the connotation of a "college education" in America today: Friendship, personal relationships, and contacts, a certain amount of freedom for individual initiative--all these things are too dear to be abjured. And when, in one way or another, these become divorced from the curriculum, someone dubbed them the extra-curriculum,--a term of decreasing popularity with the professorial class. --Yale Daily News